Heloisa Siffert - CSI, Senior Instructional Support Specialist
Heloisa began working at the Graduate School on July, 2001. Heloisa brings a wealth of experience in the areas of graphic design andmultimedia to to GSMT's ITS department as well as to SUS.
Heloisa was born, raised, and educated
in Brazil. She alsospent four years studying
in England
before
returning to
Brazil. Heloisa holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Industrial
Design and Computer Graphics, respectively.
She has a strong technical background
having utilized both Mac and PC systems
and software
packages such as Dreamweaver,
Photoshop,
Fireworks, Director,
and Flash. Having
worked in Brazil as a
graphic designer on a wide variety
of projects including designing and
developing web sites, video illustrations, virtual reality, and
print publications. Some samples
of Heloisa's art from that period are included in this
article. In addition, Heloisa taught
college-level classes including Introduction
to Computer Graphics and Graphic
Communications.
In
August 2000 Heloisa moved to the United States with her husband and two
sons. Prior to joining UMUC's Graduate School, she served as a web designer
and consultant.
She also participated in a few online classes to become more knowledgeable
about effective online course delivery systems and methods. Heloisa was
attracted to
UMUC because of the opportunity to pursue her interests in both web design
and distance education.
In addition to working closely with ITS (previously MTS) faculty members teaching online,
Heloisa is
involved
with a
number of Graduate School-wide distance education projects. These include the development of learning objects for online classes, shooting and
editing video clips for online classes, providing faculty
training and development opportunities, departmental websties and other special projects. She
enjoys collaborating both face-to-face and online with the
Graduate School's highly diverse faculty and staff members. Heloisa's
goal is to facilitate faculty members' mastery of
the technical tools at their disposal in order to
empower
them to create content-driven, visually exciting online classrooms. It is clear that UMUC's online faculty members and their classes will
benefit greatly from Heloisa's efforts.
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